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Coastal Versus Inland Temperatures

In this activity, students will use the weather section of the newspaper (or Internet) to help discover why coastal regions have relatively moderate climates. They will construct models of the ocean and the land to measure the different cooling and warming rates of each. Credit: NASA JPL.

vtop_coastal_v_inland_temps.pdf (50.7 KB)

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